WHAT IS IT?

People working toward creating more and better green space come from a range of backgrounds and disciplines each with their own terminology, quirks, idiosyncrasies and meanings. We don’t need everyone to be speaking exactly the same language, but more could be done to make sure that we understand each other.

The Green Talk Translation tool is a cumulative and evolving wiki-style translation service that allows you to input a term and then find a comparative meaning across other disciplines so that we all have a better chance of understanding each other, agreeing and collaborating. We ask different professionals to tell us what they think it means and upload that to the wiki-style translation service.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

We already know what the contentious definitions and words are, like for example ‘Open Space’ versus ‘Green Space’.

We ask different professionals to tell us what they think it means and upload that to the wiki-style translation service.

We remind people to update and check the wiki-style translation service as part of the regular 202020 Vision newsletters and incentivise inputs through rewards, etc.